So if Hollywood types, who supported the recent Democratic presidential candidate and his blowsy, post-coital-looking wife, are breaking the sexual rules, you might as well go with his more regular-looking rival, who disdains sexual promiscuity but favors dramatic military violence, and also winkingly implies that he is going to let everybody break the economic rules as a kind of moral corrective to all the sexual rules--i.

Lived place and time focus Leclair's diarizing gesture; his forms winkingly may honor certain conventions yet insist on freedom; the "things" and moments around and within us -- a fly rubbing its legs together, birds, skyscapes, country events, a stroll along the seafront, a flood scene, the local cafe, walking or biking home in the drizzle with a just-purchased bottle of brandy -- are observed in their infinite specificity, their irreplaceableness, yet are absorbed, via their very fleetingness, their strangely felt "nothingness" or immateriality, into that equally infinite plasticity or malleability that language reminds us is at their center.

Set in the near future around the globe and off it, peopled by lovably goofy ex-morticians, virtualists, young sacrifices, disease developers, and epistemological detectives who are always thoughtful, always filled with a strong will to survive and sometimes even do good, Pearlman's tales are quirky and surprising, winkingly comic, invariably iconoclastic, rich with moral conundrums and opulent ideas about everything from Frost's poetry to historiography, travel between dimensions to the possibility of a new humanism.

In between, returning screenwriter Michael Bacall and co-writers Oren Uziel and Rodney Rothman pick up exactly where "21" left off, with officers Schmidt (Hill) and Jenko (Tatum) heading off to college on a new assignment for their beleaguered deputy chief (Nick Offerman), who winkingly cautions that things "are always worse the second time.

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